DYNAMIC PANEL DATA MODELING AND SURVEILLANCE OF COVID-19 IN METROPOLITAN AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES: LONGITUDINAL TREND ANALYSIS

Dynamic Panel Data Modeling and Surveillance of COVID-19 in Metropolitan Areas in the United States: Longitudinal Trend Analysis

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has had profound and differential impacts on metropolitan areas across the United States and around the world.Within the United States, metropolitan areas that were hit earliest with the pandemic and reacted with scientifically based health policy were able to contain the virus by late spring.For other areas that kep

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MUSICAL EDUCATION: HISTORICAL COUNTERPOINTS

The present article presents a historical perspective of the musical education in schools of regular formal education in Brazil.Three moments are studied: the musical practices of the jesuitic education in the colonial period, the orpheonic singing in the Vargas Era and the music as one of the languages in the discipline of Artistic Education.In th

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Symptom frequency and development of a generic functional disorder symptom scale suitable for use in studies of patients with irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome or chronic fatigue syndrome

Objectives: To describe the extent to which irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) exhibit symptom overlap, and to validate a patient-derived, generic symptom questionnaire.Methods: A patient-derived 61-item symptom-frequency questionnaire was completed by participants recruited through IBS,

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